The document describes OER Commons, a platform curated by educators to provide over 100,000 resources across various educational standards. It offers tools for creating customized resource collections, promoting collaboration, and enhancing educator engagement through open educational resources. Additionally, it highlights the role of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) in supporting continuous learning and collaboration in the education sector.

1. By Educators, For Educators
(Since 2007)

2. • Expertly curated collections from over 400 content providers, over
100,000 resources
• Structured index for searching standards-aligned content (i.e., various
state standards, CCSS, NGSS)
• Customized collections of resources and endorsements
• Structured group and collaborative workflows and monitoring
• Integration with state and local LMS’s and processes
• Steward of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) since 2014
The OER Commons Public Library
Mature platform leverages best
practices in library science, tagging
and schema protocols, metadata
standards and interoperability

3. Supporting States and Local Agencies
• Create customizable resource collections for states and local agencies
• Provide coordination and technical supports to establish evaluation
standards, and state and Common Core standards alignment
• Facilitate content authoring, remixing, and version control, tracking
resource improvement over time
• Assist in road mapping strategies for OER adoption
• Support school librarians, pre-service and in-service teachers
• Custom technical web infrastructure and services including branded hubs
and white-labeled microsites using OER Commons
Advances the collaborative use of OER
among schools, districts, states, and
ministries of education

4. Enhances educator practice
through deep engagement with
open educational resources
Training and Professional Development Programs
• Discover resources relevant to desired use
• Create and remix open resources
• Learn about and apply Creative Commons licenses
• Align resources to appropriate standards
• Create and share curated collections
• Evaluate resource quality using shared rubrics and workflow processes
• Support collaboration and leverage what others are doing across states

5. The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
(ISKME) is an independent, education non-profit. Since 2002, our
work is focused on improving the practice of continuous learning,
collaboration, and change in the education sector.
#GoOpen Exchange
Dept. of Education – Feb. 26, 2016
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., CEO and Founder
lisa@iskme.org
Twitter: @lpetrides